Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today – Nov. 3, 2014

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

The Wall Street Journal

Farmers shift to leases, threatening to swell machinery glut, by Bob Tita

Sprint targets snacks, additional cost cuts, by Ryan Knutson

Quartz

Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal has spread to Porsche, by Ashley Rodriguez

Google wants to use drones to deliver packages by 2017, by Mike Murphy

Bloomberg

BlackBerry’s new Android smartphone could be its last device, by Gerrit De Vynck

CBS relaunches ‘Star Trek’ with series for web-TV service, by Christopher Palmeri

The Associated Press

ConAgra selling private label unit to TreeHouse Foods

Visa to buy Visa Europe in deal that could exceed $23 billion, by Ken Sweet

Reuters

Porsche, more Audi models pulled into VW emissions scandal, by Patrick Rucker and Timothy Gardner

U.S. on track to grow 1.9 percent in fourth quarter: Atlanta Fed, by Richard Leong

News about business journalism:

Forbes family sues Chinese investors that bought stake in company

NYT’s Nocera joining sports desk

FT starts email tech newsletter

Forbes expands its science coverage

Marketwatch.com hires LaMagna to cover personal finance

International Biz Times hires Dougherty to cover economics

Rubinger named Atlanta Business Chronicle publisher

Sterns hired as NBC/MSNBC business and tech correspondent

This date in business journalism history:

2011: FT reaches 250,000 digital subscribers

2007: Fox Biz Network “pretty good” from the first day

Business journalism birthdays:

Nov. 3: Diane Goldie with The Wall Street Journal

Lauren Thomas

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